Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“COMPROMISE SKEWS OUR JUDGEMENT”

When we make choices that cause us to compromise our life in Christ, it only leads to worse choices. We are essentially back ourselves into a spiritual corner. Lot made the choice to dwell in the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. These cities were ridden with sexual immorality which included homosexual sin as well. These men were pressing. Upon Lot’s door to his home with the intention of raping two angelic messengers inside and Lot comes outside to compromise with the radical Sodomites.

Lot makes a plea with the Sodomites that I have never been able to understand. He offers his two virgin daughters to them in exchange for them leaving. The two angelic messengers alone. As a father, I do not understand this attempt to compromise with the Sodomites. He is stuck between protecting the two angelic messengers or allowing the sexually deviant men to have their way with his daughters. The Sodomites want nothing to do with his daughters, they refuse them.

The Sodomites threatened to harm Lot because of his attempt to thwart their effort to assault the two angelic messengers. Thankfully, the angels pulled Lot back into the house and they struck the Sodomites with blindness which prohibited them from forcing their way into the home.

How could Lot become so skewed in his mind that he would offer his daughters to these sex-crazed men at the door? It began with a slow fade; he had grown to deal with the sin of the city in exchange for making his home their and his living. However, as a child of God, he had to face this day of reckoning. He attempted to protect the angelic messengers because that was right, but his plan involved forfeiting his daughters.  The choices we make today to involve ourselves in sinful places with sinful people will result in less liberty to make the right choices in the future. Do not compromise, dwell among the Godly and do not compromise your faith by submersing yourself in wicked and godless culture. It will only lead to further and more egregious compromise in the future.

Genesis 19:8—11 “⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: ⁵ And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. ⁶ And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, ⁷ And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.”